Yang Zhilin's Mentor Russ Congratulates Kimi K3 Launch
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-18
Russ Salakhutdinov (Yang Zhilin's CMU advisor, Hinton's mentee, and Apple's first AI Director) posted to congratulate the release of Kimi K3. In his post, Russ reminisced about their time co-leading research on XLNet and Transformer-XL at CMU, expressing pride in his student's achievements.
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